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Article emergence in Old English : a constructionalist perspective / / Lotte Sommerer



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Autore: Sommerer Lotte Visualizza persona
Titolo: Article emergence in Old English : a constructionalist perspective / / Lotte Sommerer Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2018]
©2018
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 pages)
Disciplina: 422
Soggetto topico: English language - Word formation
Soggetto non controllato: Analogy
Articles
Constructionalization
Definiteness
Nominal Determination
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nominal determination and the articles in Present Day English -- 3. Article emergence in Old English -- 4. Diachronic Construction Grammar -- 5. Nominal determination in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- 6. Nominal determination in Old English prose -- 7. Article emergence: a constructional scenario -- 8. Conclusion -- 9. Appendix: manuscript and corpus information -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: This book investigates nominal determination in Old English and the emergence of the definite and the indefinite article. Analyzing Old English prose texts, it discusses the nature of linguistic categorization and argues that a usage-based, cognitive, constructionalist approach best explains when, how and why the article category developed. It is shown that the development of the OE demonstrative 'se' (that) and the OE numeral 'an' (one) should not be told as a story of two individual, grammaticalizing morphemes, but must be reconceptualized in constructional terms. The emergence of the morphological category 'article' follows from constructional changes in the linguistic networks of OE speakers and especially from 'grammatical constructionalization' (i.e. the emergence of a new, schematic, mostly procedural form-meaning pairing which previously did not exist in the constructicon). Next to other functional-cognitive reasons, the book especially highlights analogy and frequency effects as driving forces of linguistic change.
Titolo autorizzato: Article emergence in Old English  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-11-053941-1
3-11-054105-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910796766303321
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